I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me. . I think I'm kind of cool.
Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.
Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.
Organizations should be built and managers should be functioning so people can be naturally empowered. If someone's doing their job, if someone's working in one of your warehouses, say, they should know their job better than anybody. They don't need to be 'empowered,' but encouraged and left alone to be able to do what they know best.
Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.
Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.
What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture. . . . In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business.
My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.
When I arrived in France, I cried every day. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.
If chanting is not possible during a certain task, then pray before starting it: 'Lord, give Your blessing so that I may do this work in a manner that pleases You!' At the end, pray again to the Lord for forgiving any mistakes we may have committed during the task consciously or otherwise.
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?